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Note to Bob Schaeffer

Listen Bob. I wasn’t inclined to vote for you, and I in fact did not vote for you.

But polluting my daily commute with dozens of illegally placed signs does not endear you to any one at all.

Incongruities on my Daily Commute

Every day, I travel by an adult entertainment establishment of some local repute.  The billboard has recently featured a series of either anti-Obama or vaguely pro-Republican (in the fiscally conservative vein) messages.

My City Holds it Breath and Starts to Feel a Little Nervous

Following last week’s cyanide mystery and Monday’s mailbox that shouldn’t be there, today we have:

Bomb Squad responds to Suspicious Package.

McCain’s Office in Colorado receives threat (and powder).

Do I think anything is going to happen?  No.

Do I think that there are going to be a series of low grade panics?  Oh, you betcha.

UPDATE

And they were both false alarms.

I’d Quote Ben Franklin, but Jeezus has that Quote gotten Old

The Denver PD is proposing that the Denver City Council pass a law forbidding protestors at the DNC from possessing certain things, chains, pipes, bulletproof vests and the like.

As happens rather frequently, the law and order types are all in favor of this (look to the comment).  Now, I’m not going to get into that whole debate, but I do have one thing to add.  There is one group that continuously attempts to do the two things that are happening here, namely 1) ascribe moral qualities to inanimate objects, and 2) use ownership of perfectly legal items as … Continue Reading